Politics vs. Immigration Reform

Republicans are again at war with themselves over immigration reform. Ideally, they would agree on the need to legalize millions of illegal immigrants now here and to better control the number of future unskilled foreigners competing with our struggling working class.

Unfortunately, neither the Republican Party's leadership nor its conservative opposition is entirely with the program. The conservative base doesn't want to legalize, and the leadership wants a generous supply of cheap labor.

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